The "Correct News" keeps you informed with a summary of important updates every 2 months or as important updates are required. This edition covers:
- SQF edition 8 release
- Container Deposit System - ACT 2018
- Country of Origin labelling -update
- Jewel Foods wins Telstra Median Business award
- Dogs Page
SQF Edition 8
Safe Quality Food Institute has released its latest edition of the SQF codes.
Edition 8 SQF is auditable for SQF certification on 02 Jan 2018.
There are customized individual Food Safety Codes for different industry sectors.
These are:
- SQF Food Safety Fundamentals (For small and developing businesses. Formerly Level 1)
- The SQF Retail/Wholesale Grocery Code – NEW!
- SQF Food Safety Code for Manufacturing (Formerly Level 2)
- SQF Food Safety Code for Storage and Distribution (Formerly Level 2)
- SQF Food Safety Code for Food Packaging (Formerly Level 2)
- SQF Food Safety Code for Primary Production (Formerly Level 2)
- The SQF Quality Code (Formerly Level 3)
NOTE
The Quality Code is separate to the the Food Standards Codes.
Correct Food Systems has prepared an initial review of the updated.
Read our review of the notable changes on our SQF edition 8 review page on our CFS website.
Download the new edition of the SQF codes here.
The SQF Food Safety Fundamentals and each SQF Food Safety Code will each have their own customized:
• Part A: Implementing and Maintaining the SQF Code;
• Part B System Elements (Formerly module 2);
Container Deposit Scheme- likely expansion to 4 states, 1 territory
ACT recently announced it will be introducing a container deposit scheme in 2018, using recycling depots and reverse vending machines. This will complement the NSW scheme delayed until December 2017. Western Australia and Queensland State government also plan to to introduce a similar scheme in mid 2018.
For more information, visit epa.nsw.gov.au/waste/container-deposit-scheme.htm
Country of Origin labelling update
Co untry of Origin labelling requirements continue to be finalised by the ACCC.
Records of Country of Origin Labelling must be kept for 12 months after the sale of the food item.
A new version of the online CoOL tool is being developed, with a added calculator to assist in the calculation of Australian ingredients.
You can continue labelling your product in accordance with the regulations as set out in the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code (the Food Code) until 1 July 2018, however you are advised to consider incorporating the new standard requirements as you move forward with new products or label artwork.
Correct Food Systems continues to work with our clients to review product labels and assist them with the correct Country of Origin Mark for their products.
Jewel Foods wins Telstra's Median Business Award 2016
C orrect Food Systems congratulates one of our clients Jewel Foods for winning the Medium Business Award Telstra 2016. Now in its 20th year, Jewel Fine Foods has established itself as a leading manufacturer in the rapidly growing chilled ready-to-eat meals, soups and breads sector.
Dogs Page
Each issue of "The Correct News" will publish tasty morsels for your consumption.
- A Jack Russell dog in the UK has had his jaws glued together from a takeaway pizza brochure. The dog’s saliva mixed with the glue on the glossy brochure to glue his mouth shut. After a trip to the vet, all was resolved.
- Residues on tools, vessels and implements in China found in an archeological dig suggest that they were used for making beer over 5000 years ago. Wide mouthed pots, amphora and funnels were found to contain starch fragments from millet and barley; and oxalates and organics compounds associated with cereal fermentation.
- An investigation after what appears to be human waste was found in a shipment of drinks cans at a Co Antrim factory in Northern Ireland has been reported. A container of cans from Germany was contaminated , thought to be used by stowaway immigrants to relieve themselves.
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